But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Looking after a wife and family is a worldly thing. Sometimes, just to keep them happy, it even leads to doing things which ought to be punished. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
Paul allows marriage and considers it worthy of blessing, but he contrasts it with his own preoccupation with the concerns of God and hints that the two things are incompatible.
